First the pro side, the first main issue is the fact that the 32 million Americans that don’t have health care will now have access to health care coverage. Many Americans can’t afford health care coverage and this policy lowers the cost so that more Americans will have the opportunity to get the coverage they need. Another pro is that people with preexisting conditions can no longer be denied coverage. Insurance companies have been getting away with denying people the coverage they need because they either get sick or because they have a preexisting condition and this policy puts an end to all of that. Lastly, the amount of personal bankruptcies will be reduced.
Another comes from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that recently determined that one-third of all health care consumed in the U.S. is unnecessary. That means that 33% of care covered by our insurance companies may not be medically necessary. It is no coincidence that over the last decade, hip replacements have increased by a third, knee replacements are up 70%, and MRI/CT/PET scans have
According to the United States Census Bureau, roughly 55% obtain insurance through an employer, while about 10% purchase it directly. About 31% of Americans were enrolled in a public health insurance program: 14.5% (45 million – although that number has since risen to 48 million) had Medicare, 15.9% (49 million) has Medicaid, and 4.2% (13 million) had military health insurance (there is some overlap, causing percentages to add up to more than 100%). The percentage of non-elderly workers with employer-sponsored coverage has been falling, from 68% in 2000 to 61% in 2009, the latest year for which data is available. While the primary cause of falling rates of insurance is the rising cost of health care for employers, the economic downturn since
healthcare system is expensive. Politicians and insurance companies claim that America has the best healthcare system in the world but the fact is that 42.6 million people in the U.S. currently are without health insurance, which slaps these blind fools in the face who think that American healthcare is the best out there (Maine). How can US citizens rely on such a system of healthcare? In 1998 the infant mortality rate in the U.S was 7.2 infant deaths per 1,000 live births (Maine). Although this number is pretty low, US is still ranked highest among countries based on infant mortality rates within the OECD countries.
Ted strived to improve health care in the United States. He once said, "One of the most shameful things about modern America is that in our unbelievably rich land, the quality of health care available to many of our people is unbelievably poor, and the cost is unbelievably high” (Committee for a Democratic Majority 2). He has played an important role with Jacob Javits in the creation of the National Cancer Act of 1971. He also worked with Republican Senator Nancy Kassebaum in order to create and pass the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act in 1996. A year later, he was the main creator of the State Children’s Healthy Insurance Program.
Matthew Holt who wrote an article called, “Why is Fixing American Health Care so Difficult?” According to Matthew Holt there are two main reasons why universal health coverage is so hard to accomplish. That’s because such a small population of America is sick and most of the health care dollars get spent on it. There needs to be a transfer of money from the healthy and the wealthy in order to pay for these sick people and the costs are beyond the means of the individuals concerned and their families. So in order to pay for the health care of these sick people and the rest of America, the healthy and wealthy would need to step in and help. This means that the government would have to find
AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE The Healthcare Industry is a 2.8 trillion dollar industry. From issues like personal bank-ruptcy, overpaid executives in the healthcare industry, inconsistent pricing from health care pro-viders and hospitals and patients not able to afford to have health care, there was a need for health care reform. Due to several inefficiencies that drove up the cost of healthcare, a reduced standard of care to patients, and Americans that could not afford to have health care, the Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010. Some of the key goals of the ACA were to reduce the rate of health care spending and the burden it placed on families, businesses, employers and state and federal budgets as well as improving the quality of care provided to patients. One of the provisions in the ACA is that all Americans are required to have health insurance.
That is right, I said free emergency care and then the care they are supposed to pay for, they do not, for the most part, have the means to pay their medical bills off. As bad as that is we have citizens, taxpayers, hard working blue collar Americans that are refused care. The healthcare assistance programs are so tapped out from the tab of illegal aliens’ care that paying for a 12 year olds heart transplant is impossible to do! I do not see how or why this goes uncorrected. In the 40 years prior to 2002 there were 900 cases of leprosy in the United States.
It is not alright that there are 45.7 million people without insurance, while political leaders and almost everyone is insured. According to Dr. Sara Collins, an economist, and Vice President for Affordable Health Insurance at the Commonwealth (2010), “Nearly two-thirds of the 45.7 million uninsured people under age 65 have incomes that are less than 200% of poverty, or about $44,100 per year for a family of four” (p. 3). As you can see, these are people who are working, but do not have the proper health care insurance that their family needs and should have access to. There is no doubt that the system needs to be
Amber Henson ENC 1101-1 27 Nov. 2010 How the Healthcare Reform Will Effect Physical Therapy For many people today, the cost of health care for a serious injury is so expensive that people cannot afford to pay the costs from an average income, while health care in general has risen faster than overall inflation. In today’s society, many people obtain health benefits through the workplace. People over the age of sixty-five have government programs which help out with the coverage of medical expenses. Medicare and Medicaid are not being offered in many states to help pay for the cost of physical therapy since it is not a big demand unless it is a serious injury. The new health reform bill will affect physical therapy in many negative